Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOpen Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
In their new graphic nonfiction book Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration, authors Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith turn the heated p…
6 years, 6 months ago
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
What does it take for liberty to emerge and to flourish? Daron Acemoglu will explain how, from antiquity to the modern age, the strong have tended to…
6 years, 6 months ago
Spending Federal Transportation Dollars Effectively: A Review of BUILD and New Starts
Competitive grant funds, including BUILD (formerly known as TIGER) and New Starts (also known as transit capital grants), are supposed to ensure that…
6 years, 6 months ago
The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
Robert Zubrin tells the amazing true story of how hard-driving entrepreneurial ventures such as SpaceX and Blue Origin have accomplished what was pre…
6 years, 7 months ago
Fuel to the Fire Audio
As a candidate for the presidency, Donald Trump declared the prevailing American foreign policy consensus “a complete and total disaster.” He vowed t…
6 years, 7 months ago
NATO: The Dangerous Dinosaur
Donald Trump’s presidency has triggered a growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NA…
6 years, 7 months ago
The Utopian Conceit and the War on Freedom
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, “left” and “right” have been used routinely to describe conflicting political ideologies, notwithstanding the…
6 years, 7 months ago
The Rediscovery of Tobacco: Smoking, Vaping, and the Creative Destruction of the Cigarette
Public discussions about vaping nicotine products have changed dramatically in the last few months. Vaping, an activity generally regarded as safer t…
6 years, 7 months ago
The Search for Meaning in the Age of Abundance
We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity. Yet a recent psychological study found that anxiety “is significantly more prevalent and impairing in …
6 years, 7 months ago
Patients, Privacy, and PDMPs: Exploring the Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) operate in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. These statewide electronic databases of prescrip…
6 years, 7 months ago